Amid all the fingerpointing over bonuses and bailouts, about who knew what when -- it's interesting, but not at all surprising, that the indomitable Molly Ivins predicted all this. In a 1999 column, Ivins warned upon passage of the Phil...
Phil Gramm, the former Texas senator, has been on a bit of a legacy-building tour lately. Recall that last summer, as a top adviser to GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, he called Americans a "nation of whiners" whose...
Is it just me, or does Barack Obama's pick for interior secretary (right) look like a certain former Texas senator? And unless this amounts to something, this may be as close as we get to a Texan in the...
For months, it was conventional wisdom that Phil Gramm, the former Texas senator, had the inside track to serve as Treasury Secretary if his pal Sen. John McCain wins the White House. Then came all that ugliness about calling America...
One of the key points of the lonnnnnnnnng Obama campaign "documentary" on the Keative Five scandal is that John McCain didn't learn lessons about de-regulation from that episode. To prove it, the video includes a healthy dose of Phil Gramm,...
An ad by Moveon.org says former Texas Sen. and former McCain campaign co-chairman Phil Gramm "stripped safeguards that would have protected us" from the economic crisis. FactCheck.org found that claim untrue. This fact check also includes a look at the...
Phil Gramm's quip about the "nation of whiners" seems to be the mother's milk of Barack Obama campaign fodder. The Democrats are once again using the remark to whack Sen. John McCain as out of touch on economics. The...
Texan Ron Paul, who raised a lot of money but got few votes in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, says he won't endorse John McCain, even though former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm tried to get him to. Gramm,...
Phil Gramm may have formally left the John McCain campaign, but the former Texas senator lives on in the campaign rhetoric of the Democrats. On Thursday night, Democratic nominee Barack Obama recycled the comments that prompted Mr. McCain to dispense...
Amid concerted Democratic bashing, Sen. John McCain got a back-handed compliment Tuesday night from his home-state Democratic governor, Janet Napolitano. "Just as I am proud of Arizona, I like to be positive about my fellow Arizonans," Ms. Napolitano told the...
Phil Gramm didn't stay in the dog house for long. Reports from Aspen, Colo., where McCain was attending an Aspen Institute event today, are that the former Texas senator was in the front row, and says he'll spend today...
The McCain camp is now risking the ire of the Prince of Darkness, taking direct issue with the report from Robert Novak regarding the surrogate who just won't go away. Gramm in or out? Out, says McCain spokesman Jeff...
The relevant clip of McCain senior economic adviser on PBS the other night, saying Phil Gramm no longer is advising the Arizona senator....
Sen. John McCain's top economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, was on PBS Nightly Business Report on Friday night (sorry, Trailblazers missed it; sometimes we have other things to do on a Friday night) and was peppered about Phil Gramm's assertion that...
The fallout over Phil Gramm's assertion that Americans are a "nation of whiners" continues. John McCain told reporters this afternoon in Wisconsin that he'd spoken with his longtime pal and national campaign co-chair, the voluble ex-senator from Texas. "Sure," McCain...
Last week in Minsk, Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko at Belarus Independence Day. Could Gramm win Senate confirmation in time for next year's parade? Obama pounced on Gramm's "nation of whiners" statement. "America already has one Dr. Phil. We don't...
Phil Gramm, the former Texas senator and top economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, says the economic pain and uncertainty Americans feel is mostly psychosomatic. Democrats are having a field day. "You've heard of mental depression. This is a...
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